Conveners
S61. EARLY MIDDLE AGES 1. MEROVINGIANS & CAROLINGIANS
- Arent Pol (Universiteit Leiden)
Some of the Merovingian obols, fractions of the Merovingian denier in 670-750 have the distinction of being uniface. Unlike in the Germanic environment, in the French tradition this type of coinage is exceptional. The aim of this paper is to complement the corpus with new coins which have appeared on the market, have been reported in private collections or in public collections. The corpus now...
In this paper we report on the "The Ruler in the Mass Media. Frankish image politics on coins and seals in cultural comparison", a dissertation completed at the Goethe University Frankfurt. The extent to which Frankish emperors and kings conveyed political messages through coins and seals in the period from 500 to 1000 is examined. In addition, I discuss interactions and differences to the...
Until 2020 only three Carolingian coins had been discovered in Poland, in the Truso emporium. The situation changed in 2020 and 2021 when members of the "Gryf" Association discovered some XRISTIANA RELIGIO coins in Biskupiec (Warmia, NE Poland). As a result of the excavations by the Museum in Ostróda, and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, a total of 131 XRISTIANA RELIGIO coins of...
With the death of Lothair I (840), the denarii issued in the Kingdom of Italy stopped bearing the name of the mint of origin. They adopted the representation of a church in the form of a tetrastyle temple accompanied by the legend XPISTIANA RELIGIO, which would remain in sole use until 905/10th c., and were later after progressively abandoned during the 10th century.
This situation gives rise...
